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Roman Holiday
Kei and I watched Roman Holiday tonight, the movie that popularized short women’s haircuts and vespa scooters.
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Mount Pugh
bugs-and-che Originally uploaded by ekraay. Kei, Karl, Carol and hiked up Mount Pugh on Sunday. These are Karl’s photos. I left my camera battery in the charger. Idiot! We left Seattle in the big blue egg, Karl’s new Previa, around 6 am. We got to the trailhead around 8:45. We climbed a couple thousand feet…
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Google adding face recognition technology to Picasa
They caught the famous MIT Blackjack team with it, now they want to introduce it to Picasa. Google announced that it was going to bring face facial recognition software technology to photos, so I can automatically find all photos with Grandma in them, for instance. Very slick.
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Goodbye hip, hello zip
IMG_0434 Originally uploaded by ekraay. I’m finally at peace with being a geek. After months of struggling with hipster pda’s and all their cool 3×5 variants, I’m “downsizing” to a pda. This picture describes why. As does my post to 43folders. My old system Old System My new system New System
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Life Goals
After much soul searching, I’ve come up with a short list of my life goals. They are: 1. Go jump in a lake. 2. Go fly a kite. 3. Take a hike. 4. Get a life. Everything is much clearer now.
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Too many to-do lists.
I’m getting oversaturated with my to do lists. I was just looking in my office and I have 4 separate GTD systems. One on my outlook, one in my GTDTiddlywiki, one in my hipster PDA and a to do scratchpad on Google desktop. Instead of “stress free productivity” I’m living in ADD world of writing…
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Instructables: step-by-step collaboration
I stumbled across this site when trying to figure out how to make a stand-up desk. Good for the do it yer-selfer. It’s like flickr + ehow. My only beef? Loose some of the ajax stuff. It’s not obvious at first how to navigate around. But not a bad idea. I “get it” so much…
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Robin’s Children
Here is a shaky video I shot of the good kids of Sherwood Forest giggling their way to dump money into a thief’s pointy green hat. Let’s not let the ave rats with their hemp dog collars and cries for spare change get word of this.
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How to fix a Canon S400
Here is how to fix your Canon’s “memory card error” problem. – Removed the CF card – Held down ‘Menu’ key until I could reset to factory default settings – Popped in card – Formatted it – Restarted camera. A google search to a camera review site yeilded this gem. I was able to take…